Marshside is a
hamlet
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in the
county
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of
Kent
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, England.
It is in the parish of
Chislet
Chislet is an English village and civil parish in northeast Kent between Canterbury and the Isle of Thanet. The parish is the second largest in the district. A former spelling, 'Chistlet', is seen in 1418. The population of the civil parish incl ...
alongside the
Chislet Marshes southeast of
Herne Bay.
Governance
An
electoral ward
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in the same name exists with the most populous parish being
Sturry
Sturry is a village on the Great Stour river situated northeast of Canterbury in Kent. Its large civil parish incorporates several hamlets and, until April 2019, the former mining village of Hersden.
Geography
Sturry lies at the old Roman jun ...
. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 3.302.
References
City of Canterbury
Hamlets in Kent
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